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About Guoyuan LiHans Petter HildreHouxiang Zhang

1. Houxiang Zhang is a full professor and the leader of Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree on Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in 2003. From 2004 he worked as Postdoctoral fellow senior researcher at the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS) Department of Informatics Faculty of Mathematics Informatics and Natural Sciences University of Hamburg Germany. In Feb. 2011 he finished the Habilitation on Informatics at University of Hamburg. Dr. Zhang joined the NTNU Norway in April 2011 where he is a full Professor on Mechatronics. From 2011 to 2016 Dr. Zhang also hold a Norwegian national GIFT Professorship on product and system design funded by Norwegian Maritime Centre of Expertise. He was nominated and selected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences in 2019 and a member of Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Jan 2024. Dr. Zhang has engaged into several research topics including control optimization digitalization and AI application especially on autonomous vehicle. He has applied for and coordinated more than 30 projects supported by Norwegian Research Council (NFR) German Research Council (DFG) EU and industry. In these areas he has published over 300 journal and conference papers as author or co-author. Dr. Zhang has received five best paper awards and six finalist awards for best conference paper at International conference on Robotics and Automation. 2. Guoyuan Li is a full professor at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems Department of Informatics University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany in 2013. Since 2014 he has been with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Ålesund Norway. He became an associate professor of ship intelligence and further promoted to full professor at Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering NTNU Ålesund Norway in 2018 and 2021 respectively. Dr. Li has published more than 140 papers in the areas of his research interests which include locomotion control of bioinspired robots digitalization simulation and modelling eye tracking analysis and artificial intelligence and optimization algorithms in marine operation. Dr. Li has received two best paper award and two finalist award at IEEE international conferences.